How To Design A Business Plan Sample

By Andrea J. Olson


A lot of people go online to find free business plan samples to "save time" so that they don't have to "do all the writing". My advice is watch out.Your plan is supposed to be your plan! My experience with the pre-written plans is that most people get lazy with them. After they cut and paste their business name in and do a little customizing of the first few pages, they tend to skip changing the rest. This defeats the purpose of doing a business plan in the first place which is to help you plan (it's in the name, right?) how your business is going to operate successfully.

Overall you need to include five bigger topics in your plan. These five topics are an Executive Summary, History and Position to Date, Market Research, Business Strategy and Operations.The first thing you need to do when you write a restaurant business plan sample is to write an Executive Summary. In the Executive Summary there are a few issues you need to address. These issues include: a description of the company, a mission statement, products and services you will offer, a financial forecast, and financing requirements. All of this information will help lay the foundation for what your restaurant will do and how you plan to do it.

Imagine how embarrassing it is to have to explain that there is something in your plan you didn't even realize was there! It certainly doesn't inspire confidence in the people you are trying to pry money out of when you don't even know what's in your business plan!

The third part of the business plan is arguably the most important. This will help you predict how successful your business will be and how you can make your restaurant as successful as possible. This part should include: economic and social factors, competitive environment, long-term opportunities, geographic area, customer description, target customers, market definition, market opportunities, competitive analysis, competitive advantages, competitive positions, and potential future competition. All of this information should be researched and then analyzed thoroughly. The answers you'll get during this part will be invaluable to the future success of your restaurant.

The fourth topic you need to address while writing your restaurant business plan is your business strategy. This part should outline exactly how you will attract customers and how you plan to keep them coming back. The topics you should address during this part are: customer incentives, advertising and promotion, sales and marketing, and commission. The information you include in this part will directly lead to how well your restaurant is going to be doing.

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